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A collection of damn interesting things. ... One very common problem to befall people recovering from the sleeping sickness was Postencephalitic Parkinson’s disease. This caused life-long symptoms such as slowness, tremors, speech problems, and abnormal muscle movement.
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www.damninteresting.com/the-sleeping-sickness
www.damninteresting.com/the-sleeping-sickness
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Encephalitis lethargica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Encephalitis lethargica (EL) or von Economo disease is an atypical form of encephalitis. Also known as "sleepy sickness" or as "sleeping sickness" (though different from the sleeping sickness trans...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica
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Amino acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amino acids are molecules containing both amine and carboxyl functional groups. These molecules are particularly important in biochemistry, where this term refers to alpha-amino acids with the genera...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid
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Barbeau's comments on L-DOPA's impact on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were of ... given L-DOPA, this drug is not used as medication for this disorder. ... Also known as sleeping sickness or sleepy sickness, those who survived the ...
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linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0306987703003189
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0306987703003189
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L-dopa is an amino acid natural to the body that forms in the liver. This amino acid is often used to treat Parkinson’s disease but there is some argument among doctors about its effectiveness. L-dopa in the human body is converted to dopam... ... L Dopa Used for Sleeping Sickness...
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www.ask.com/questions-about/L-dopa
www.ask.com/questions-about/L-dopa
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[edit] Popular culture; The discovery that L-DOPA could relieve some symptoms was described in the book Awakenings by Oliver Sacks in 1973. The book was used by Harold Pinter as the basis of his one-act play A Kind of Alaska, performed in 1982 starring Judi Dench.
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www.scribd.com/doc/6308679/LDopa-and-Lorenzos-Oil-FAQS-...
www.scribd.com/doc/6308679/LDopa-and-Lorenzos-Oil-FAQS-18pp
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L-dopa is commonly used to treat patients with Parkinson's disease and the dyskinesias can be as debilitating as the disease itself. ... ...from a strange sleeping sickness called encephalitis letharagica or von Economo's encephalopathy using the newly discovered Parkinson's drug L-dopa. The Canadian Press; Yth. dr.
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www.mongabay.com/health/medications/L-Dopa.html
www.mongabay.com/health/medications/L-Dopa.html
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The drug is most famous for its' use by Oliver Sacks in 1969 who used the drug to treat people with sleeping sickness that hadn't been able to initiate movement for some 50 years. The drug had a remarkable effect of ... Not Daisy; Not Daisy; Are we here now?; I am a horror; This is an old one; Not Daisy; L Dopa fixed me,
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www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=L-DOPA
www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=L-DOPA
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